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The Journey to Constantinople

published 1553

Pieter Coecke van Aelst

Artist, Flemish, 1502 - 1550

Medium

woodcut (10 blocks, 17 sheets? joined together)
Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection
Accession

1964.8.462
Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 4

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Fl. Tulkens, Brussels); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA , 1961; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

2007

Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

Bibliography

1949

Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger.

Wikidata ID

Q65511667

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